Refuge opened the world’s first safe house for women and children fleeing domestic violence in Chiswick, West London in 1971.
Refuge is now the country’s largest provider of specialist services for victims of all forms of gender-based violence (domestic, sexual, so called ‘honour’ violence, trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, stalking and FGM).
Every day we support over 4,000 women and children in our national network of services. These include Independent Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Advocacy services (IDVAs/ISVAs and IGVAs), community outreach, specialist refuge accommodation, sanctuary services and culturally-specific services and the Freephone 24 Hour National Domestic Violence Helpline (run in partnership between Refuge and Women’s Aid).
We advise Government and lobby to keep violence against women and girls high on the public agenda. We run award-winning prevention and public education campaigns, managing a busy press office and website, and we are an accredited training provider.
We give a voice to the voiceless.

We are often looking for enthusiastic, committed people with a wide range of skills to join
our teams. Vacancies are regularly added to our website so if you do not see the job you
are looking for this time, do keep trying. As well as being a great place to work, you can
look forward to a rewarding job with opportunities to learn and develop.

Refuge is very proud to have been awarded the Disability confident symbol. This
recognises that Refuge ensures that all candidates for our roles are considered based on
ability rather than disability. If you have the interest, commitment and talent to contribute
to our high quality services please apply.

Full details and job descriptions for all available roles can be found by clicking on each job
title.